Second son is a short story featuring jack reacher a fictional character created by british author jim grant. This takes some effort since she is married to an american military officer who is a member of us marine corps and she is constantly moving.
Second son was released originally for the kindle and in 2017 was included in no middle name a collection of jack reacher short stories.
Jack reacher second son. Second son jack reacher 15 5 lee child second son is a short story featuring jack reacher a fictional character created by british author jim grant who writes under the pen name of lee child. His family had followed three days later on a passenger plane via manila his wife josephine and his two sons fifteen year old joe and thirteen year old jack. The story is a prequel to the novel series and gives a glimpse of the teen age reacher.
The short story second son is a snapshot of the life of reacher and his family circa 1974 while they re stationed on a military base in okinawa. In this original new story lee child looks back on an incident in his hero jack reacher s teenage years as the younger son of a tough career us marine on a faraway military base in the pacific takes place in august 1974. Second son is a short story written by lee child.
For the uninitiated it follows the stoic hulking and streetwise jack reacher a former military policeman who s now a drifter with a vast capacity for protective and retributive violence. Josephine reacher was a bright spirited energetic woman at forty four still curious about the world and happy to be seeing so much of it still tolerant of the ceaseless moves and the poor accommodations. Ever wondered what early experiences shaped reacher s explosive career as butt kicker supreme the one man guided missile battler for justice.
Second son was bundled with the movie jack reacher as a target exclusive when the movie was released on blu ray on 7 may 2013. He faces stoically and unflinchingly the approach of death mainly concerned about letting his daughter josephine know. Second son by lee child short novella in the jack reacher thriller series 2011.
In paris a 90 year old man the retired furniture restorer and world war i veteran laurent moutier is unable to get out of bed and realizes he is about to die.
